TY - JOUR AB - <p><span class="fontstyle0">This </span><span class="fontstyle0">article </span><span class="fontstyle0">studies </span><span class="fontstyle0">the extent to which </span><span class="fontstyle0">Dutch </span><span class="fontstyle0">political parties fulfil their electoral mandates. </span><span class="fontstyle0">The </span><span class="fontstyle0">central question </span><span class="fontstyle0">is </span><span class="fontstyle0">how collective mandate fulfilment has </span><span class="fontstyle0">developed </span><span class="fontstyle0">over the </span><span class="fontstyle0">last </span><span class="fontstyle0">sixty years. </span><span class="fontstyle0">lncreasing </span><span class="fontstyle0">electoral volatility, changes </span><span class="fontstyle0">in </span><span class="fontstyle0">party organizations and the </span><span class="fontstyle0">rise </span><span class="fontstyle0">of populist parties could </span><span class="fontstyle0">have resulted in </span><span class="fontstyle0">a decrease of party </span><span class="fontstyle0">mandate </span><span class="fontstyle0">fulfilment. Contrary to previous studies, this article studies the </span><span class="fontstyle0">mandate in </span><span class="fontstyle0">terms of congruence between the electoral and </span><span class="fontstyle0">parliamentary </span><span class="fontstyle0">party competition. </span><span class="fontstyle0">This </span><span class="fontstyle0">allows for the study of </span><span class="fontstyle0">opposition </span><span class="fontstyle0">parties' </span><span class="fontstyle0">mandate fulfilment. Election manifestos </span><span class="fontstyle0">and </span><span class="fontstyle0">parliamentary </span><span class="fontstyle0">debates are studied for six elections and the subsequent parliaments (between </span><span class="fontstyle0">1950-</span><span class="fontstyle0">2006)</span><span class="fontstyle0">. </span><span class="fontstyle0">The structure </span><span class="fontstyle0">of </span><span class="fontstyle0">the party </span><span class="fontstyle0">competition </span><span class="fontstyle0">is rather </span><span class="fontstyle0">congruent </span><span class="fontstyle0">before </span><span class="fontstyle0">and after </span><span class="fontstyle0">electio</span><span class="fontstyle0">ns </span><span class="fontstyle0">for all of the cases, except </span><span class="fontstyle0">1972-1977</span><span class="fontstyle0">. </span><span class="fontstyle0">There </span><span class="fontstyle0">is </span><span class="fontstyle0">no </span><span class="fontstyle0">evidence fora </span><span class="fontstyle0">decline </span><span class="fontstyle0">of<br>the degree to which parties collectively fulfil </span><span class="fontstyle0">their </span><span class="fontstyle0">electoral </span><span class="fontstyle0">mandates.</span> </p> AU - Tom Louwerse DA - 2012/12// IS - 4 VL - 54 PB - PY - 2012 TI - Het democratisch mandaat van Nederlandse politieke partijen : crisis of continuïteit ? T2 - Res Publica UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/rp/article/id/72926/ ER -